Cognitive neuroscience: searching for the bottleneck in the brain.
People simply cannot do two things at once, as shown by research on the so-called psychological refractory period. A new neuroimaging study has now localized the response-selection bottleneck underlying the psychological refractory period to a frontoparietal network.
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Charles
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Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. charles.spence@psy.ox.ac.uk
D001931:Brain Mapping; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D012033:Refractory Period, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis